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CHAPTER 4
Sasuke Uchiha
An Hour Earlier
Sasuke woke up with a start. He was covered in sweat.
Another nightmare, he thought.
"Looks like this is going to be another sleepless night" He mumbled to himself as he got out of bed and started getting dressed.
He walked out of his house and headed towards the familiar dock by the river.
Present Time
Sasuke looked out at the water and basked in the calm and quiet feeling the night brought with it. He looked up at the moon an admired its glow. He suddenly felt a presence behind him and turned to see who was disturbing his quiet. Obsidian eyes met with bright green ones the color mint leaves. He knew who those eyes belong to and couldn't help but look down and inspect the body they belong to before returning his gaze to her captivating eyes. What he wanted to do was just look away and act as if he hadn't seen her. But, for some reason he just couldn't look away. He noticed that her body had filled out more. She had curves now. In all the right places, he heard his traitorous thoughts add in a whisper. Her face was thinner. Not in a bad way either. She had defined cheek bones that accented the natural flush of her cheeks. He noted the apprehension in her eyes and how it seemed she was also checking him out as he was her.
"Hi." He heard her say after what felt like eternity. He realized how nice it felt to hear her voice and wondered why he kept thinking these things. This was Sakura for Kami's Sake! Annoying, weak, little Sakura that clung to him like a leach. No, he realized. This is not that little girl. This person standing a few yards away from him was a stranger. A woman.
"Hn." He replied after a moment. She looked surprised. As if she thought he wouldn't answer. Which would explain why she had moved slightly as if to turn and leave.
She made to move again before Sasuke heard himself speak out.
"How are you?" He asked. Then inwardly cursed himself for acting without thinking.
"Umm. Fine, I guess." Sakura stayed quiet for a moment and he thought she was going to stop there before he heard her continue,
"And you?" She asked.
"I'm good." He replied.
He watched as her eyes widened slightly, then went back to normal as she tried to hide her surprise. Then, they narrowed slightly and stayed that way. It seemed like she thought this was all some kind of trick.
Sakura stood quiet for a moment. She looked as if she wasn't sure how to continue from there.
"Well, umm, good night Sasuke." She finally said. And with that she turned and left. Not even giving him a chance to respond.
Not that Sasuke knew how to respond anyway. It seemed that he was having a hard time keeping his cool unemotional mask in front of this new Sakura. He didn't notice until she was gone that he had wanted her to stay. All of a sudden, it was too quiet outside.
Not wanting to be outside anymore, Sasuke trudged back home hoping that this time sleep would claim him.
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"Sasuke".
The voice that called to him was sweet and seductive. Like a melody. He opened his eyes and looked at his surroundings. He was in what looked to be a meadow in a small clearing. Surrounding the meadows were dozens of cherry blossom trees. The light pink flowers drifting off the trees in the light breeze. They reminded him of someone. But he couldn't remember who.
"Sasuke" There was that voice again.
He looked around for the source of the sound and found nothing.
A slight rustling of leaves caught his attention to his right and he turned to see a women walk out of the wooded area behind the cherry blossoms. The first thing he noticed were her eyes. They were the brightest shade of green he had ever seen. Captivating him. He broke his gaze from those eyes to look down at her rosy lips. Turned upwards in a smile radiant enough to bring even the strongest of men to their knees. As his eyes headed farther down he took in the sight of her body in a small baby doll dress that barely made it to her thighs. It hugged her small waist nicely and the flaired bottom swayed ever so slightly in the wind. Sasuke was sure that if the wind was just a tiny bit stronger, he would be seeing a lot more than just her beautifully toned legs. The very same legs, that looked impossibly long and sexy walking towards him. That dress did wonders for her legs.
"There you are." She said. Still giving him that smile. Sasuke wasn't sure how to react. This woman looked so familiar, but for some reason he couldn't figure out who she was. All he knew was that the smile she was giving him was making him feel things he had never felt before when looking at a woman.
She reached where he was in the middle of the clearing and wrapped her arms around his neck. Too shocked to do anything, Sasuke just stood there. Mesmerized by the heated stare she was giving him. His body felt as if it were on fire. In a good way.
She inched her face closer to him and he could feel her sweet, vanilla breath caress his lips.
"Sasuke-kun" she whispered.
"Sakura" He replied before realizing what he was saying. The reality hit him like a slap in the face.
Just as her lips were about to graze his,
he woke up.
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The raven-haired man sat up abruptly in bed. He looked down at himself to realize he was having a very realistic dream and his body was reacting accordingly. He groaned as he noticed his very prominent erection and tried to get his mind off of the dream he had just had and who it was about. He looked up and out his bedroom window to notice that the sun was just starting to peek over the horizon. He had slept through most of the night yet his body felt like he had been run run over by a carriage.
He got up reluctantly and headed for the shower. A *cold* shower. To take away the remnants of that disturbing dream.
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Later that day, Sasuke found himself unable to get that smile out of his mind. Everytime he closed his eyes he could see it. Beautiful and bright as it was in his dream. Those luscious pink lips. He kept trying to imagine how soft they would feel and then realize where his thoughts were going and mentally berate himself for thinking such things.
"...ke" He thought he heard someone calling him.
"Sasuke!" It came louder this time, breaking him out of his daze.
He blinked a couple times to clear his vision and was face to face with an annoyed looking Ino. She had one hand on her hip and the other extended towards him with a small pink slip in it.
"I've been calling your name for the last 5 minutes." She said. Looking at him suspiciously. Thankfully she didn't say anything about his zoning out.
"Here is the list of deliveries for the first round." She commented as he took the slip from her and stuffed it in his pocket. He took off without anymore hesitation.
3 MONTHS LATER
Sasuke Uchiha
Sasuke has been doing volunteer work left and right for the village for the last 3 months.
Every other week Tsunade would call him into her office with a new job. Today he is making his way there to recieve his latest one.
Everything has been going pretty good for him. Most of the villagers are polite to him and he has even gotten to catch up with some of the people from the academy all thanks to Naruto. He organized a guys night out for them so that he could get a chance to intereact with them. He wouldn't ever admit it, but Sasuke was glad that the Dobe was there for him all this time. His constant chatter and loudness has grown on him inthe time he's been back.
Sasuke noticed that his friends from the academy had not changed much in terms of personality. Lee was still a clone of Guy. Kiba still reminded him alot of Naruto and they occasionally bumped heads with their competitiveness. Shino was still quiet and wierd. Chouji only thought about food still. And Shikamaru was still a lazy genius. Shikamaru was the one person aside from Naruto that Sasuke would call a friend. He didn't dislike the other guys, but he couldn't really consider them *friends* either. They weren't the type of people he could hang out with alone.
In his time in the village Sasuke had started playing Shikamaru in Shogi. They wouldn't talk the entire time and Shikamaru would always win. But, the fact that the Nara kid knew that Sasuke wasn't the conversational type made him feel comfortable around him.
The raven-haired boy hadn't heard much from the girls. Not that he cared. Those first 2 weeks with Ino had been enough for him not to want anything to do with them. Although at first she had been quiet and reserved towards him. She eventually got comfortable enough around him to where she thought it was okay to blabber on and on about who-knows-what to him as if he cared. He'd seen the quiet, dark-haired Hyuuga girl with Naruto on occasion and wondered if they were together. She always seemed to be blushing around him.
One thing Sasuke was glad about was that his nightmares had stopped. Although, thinking it thoroughly he wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing. The nightmares had stopped only to be replaced by very lucid dreams of the pink-haired kunoichi. It was always the same dream. The meadow. The cherry-blossoms. The short Baby-doll dress that showed off her long, toned legs. Every morning Sasuke would wake up and immediately have to take a cold shower to wash away the remnants of that dream.
He wondered how she was doing. He hadn't seen her since that day by the river dock. He knew from Naruto that her getting completely engrossed in her training and work was a normal thing for her now. Naruto told him that he had gone a whole 2 months without seeing her one time and that he had had to barge into her office and demand she go to dinner with him because he never saw her anymore.
This had made Sasuke secretly admire Sakura's dedication. He saw a little bit of her abilities during the war but wondered if that was the extent of it. Powerful punches and healing. He found it hard to belive that the girl who had been so weak at one point could have gotten much stronger. But by the way Naruto cringed in fear when he was going on about a time he had woken up Sakura from a nap it seemed as if he were afraid of her. Why would he be afraid of someone so small and fragile-looking?
Sasuke cleared his thoughts as he entered the Hokage's building not wanting to seem distracted to her.
When he got to the door he knocked and entered once he heard the muffled "come in".
The stoic Uchiha pushed the door open and his eyes met with hazel brown eyes but not before catching a glimpse of pink in his periperal. He kept his gaze straight however. Looking only at the Hokage for fear that if he looked into her eyes the images of his very perverted dreams would flood back into his mind and he would not be able to look away.
"Ah, there you are Uchiha. We were just discussing the terms of your next assignment." The Hokage stated once he had closed the door behind him. He could feel her eyes on him but refused to look her way.
"Hn." He replied after a moment.
"Right, so you'll be volunteering at the hospital as your next job. This one is a little different however as it will take longer than two weeks." She continued.
Sasuke chose this moment to look over at the pick-haired girl and in an effort to avoid looking into her eyes he ended up focusing on her lips. Lips that she was currently chewing that Sasuke found to have a worse affect on him than looking into her eyes. So, he looked up meet her gaze. She looked at him with an indifference that he was not accustomed to, and shrugged her shoulders. AS if to say that this was not her idea but she ould be going along with it anyway.
His onyx eyes turned back to the Hokage who was holding out a scroll.
"You will be working with Sakura as her assistant. She gets alot of patients at the hospital throughout the day and the paperwork to go with it is troublesome to say the least. You will be helping her file and organize her work. Anything else she needs while at the hospital will also be your responsibility. I do not have anyother jobs lined up for you after this one so this is kind of permanent until something else comes up." The blonde woman in front of him explained.
Sasuke grabbed the scroll from her and stuffed it in his pocket with a grunt as a response.
"You start tomorrow." The woman finished. And with that she waved Sasuke away with the pretense of having to speak to her disciple in private.
That night, Sasuke dreamed of soft, green eyes. Alluring in their brightness.
A/N: Looks like our dear old Sasuke-kun is a bit frustrated, wouldn't you say?
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I love frustrated Sasuke! He's soo cute !
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